Pretty interesting.... that an infected laptop would make it into orbit....

With the increasing "digitizing" and networking of everything.... from phones to our cars and to kitchens.... let's hope that our stoves, fridges, toasters, cars will be immune to viruses...

But come on.. I have this feeling that if it's networked.. then there's the possibility to "bug it".

(BBC article on the virus in space)

Let me start by saying that Iron Maiden has been one of my all time favorite bands. I'm happy that I got to see them live a couple of times and that for the level of success they've had in their careers they have always appeared to be grounded..... I have the utmost respect for them.

These video clips are from CNN Revealed and shows interviews along with clips from their live shows and routine while on their latest tours....

Enjoy!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

http://edition.cnn.com/CNNI/Programs/revealed/

This is pretty neat... if you're a Habs fan I suppose..

EA Sports is honoring the Montreal Canadiens organisation in their centennial year with a special alltime allstar team of Habs...

Just picture your team with... say Maurice Richard, Jean Béliveau, Doug Harvey, Larry Robinson and Ken Dryden.... how about Guy Lafleur??

Just read this blog post about the game... from Habs Inside/Out

I've never really gotten into the hole Digg thing to be quite honest. While I occasionally go over and check it out it hasn't grabbed me or anything.

I am fond of some of Yahoo's web apps. And they have come out with a "Digg type" site.

(InfoWorld article)

It's called Yahoo! Buzz and you can find it here:

http://buzz.yahoo.com/

I'm gonna "digg" around "yahoo! buzz" for a bit.

Peace.

Personally, I've grown tired of this story.

The constant wondering "IF" Sundin will play and where he will play. I had grown fondly of the idea of seeing Sundin in the habs uniform... but before the idea had grown on me I was incredibly excited to see the coming year start up....

Ryder is now in Boston and last year, he really wasn't a big part of the team. I think the split between the Habs and Ryder will be good for both.

Tanguay is in Montreal filling the hole left by Ryder and also giving them a slightly different skill set.... I personally believe that Tanguay will be a better fit in Montreal this year then he was in Calgary last year and that Ryder was in Montreal last year.

And with the arrival of Georges Laraque I was thrilled.

Laraque grew as one of my favorite players while he battle in the playoffs with the Oilers some years ago.

I was really really hoping that the Habs were gonna make  him an offer.. and that Laraque had changed his mind about playing in Montreal. And to my liking, the scenario played out.

With the young players taking a still larger role on the team and more of their great young talent signing on, this year seems much like last year as we see the growth of what Timmins and Gainey have been trying to build. And it's starting to come to fruition.

Pacioretty,  Webber, Maxwell.... these are some of the names that I can't wait to see glimpes of. Will there be another Sergei Kostitsyn type player this year? Last year, the coaching staff almost kept Sergei in the big league out of the gate because he showed lots of upside. He sees the ice very well. This year's pre-season might hold a player or 2 in this same light.

In my eyes, there are much more to the Habs this year as the Sundin saga. The Sundin saga seems to have stolen the spotlight on a team that is coming to fruition in building themselves by choosing the best player (draft) and not filing holes or finding a role player.

Gainey built a very solid nucleus in Dallas while he was in the organisation.

He's been doing the same here. I personally have been so very pleased to see both Gainey and Timmins in the Montreal Canadiens organisation.

Back to Sundin, so it seems that he's wanting to play with the Rangers....
(Sportsnet article here)

Good for him.

It's too bad he's been most of the media spotlight on a Habs organisation bubbling with talent and potential.

I've noticed that they've been picked near the top of the league be some hockey magazines.... Seems as though some nay sayers have seen the light.

;-)

Go Habs!

So.. today, as mentioned previously... is my first day into the realm of self-employment... well, first day full time in about 2.5 years.

Have I made a million bucks??

Come on man, not in my first day!! What r ya talkin' bout man???

I've spent some of my day organising myself, with dotProject as mentioned in the previous post, and also thinking about various areas that I want to focus..... started thinking a little bit about a marketing approach.

Marketing is something I've rarely ever done. And something that I'd have to say is so very important.

I'm really looking forward to the challenges ahead.

But today in fact, I guess I have picked up a couple of leads.

I had been contacted about a contract that should last several weeks and it appears as though this is gonna happen.

I've also picked up a small website to host.

So, after my first day, I've made progress!

I'm very excited about this. Last time around, I had no idea what I was doing.....

This time around, I feel much more comfortable.

It's important not to give up, and if there are things that you want to accomplish, you gotta try....

It's better to say "I gave it my best shot" then "I should've tried".
(That's what I think!)

Going back a few years, when I was fully self-employed... I found dotProject. I needed a project manager type of program and went through a gagle of them.

dotProject seemed to have many useful features, many of which I desired. But one problem that I had was that I couldn't seem to configure it so that I could set up client accounts and properly give them access to the projects I had set up without the accounts being mangled with other business info and etc.....

Well, after fiddling with it last night and being motivated because of my recent rank as once again diving into the world of self-employment... I think I've properly configured it.

The docs have improved over the years. And I've foud this page (and a few of the other on the Wiki) quite helpful.

If you've never used dotProject, you can check it out here: http://www.dotproject.net/

I've had my eye on a ColdFusion based project manager, but so far haven't used it. Since I have some data in this implementation of dotProject, I'll continue to use it.

Later on, I might try to join an open source project, much like the CF based project/task manager.

Peace y'all!!!

I find spam terribly anoying, although, it would be nice if all of those emails promising transfer of a few millions through some kind of foreign estate were in fact true.....

I'm sure we'd all be incredibly rich if they were.

I've seen this email get blocked or caught in spam filters quite a bit in the last week or so.... CNN Alerts!!

This one kind of caught me off guard, when I saw it in my spam, I couldn't remember if I had signed up for any type of alert.

It turns out I hadn't.

No harm done..... just a couple of wasted minutes.

(PC World article on these fake CNN alerts)

Well, I finally decided to start using my Flickr account.

There will be many publicly viewable pictures on there, and some will be kept private to friends and Family.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfyves/

I'm hoping to make a hobby out of taking pictures someday. I really love seeing pictures of nature... so maybe some day, I'll start that hobby.

Just writting this note to say I've updated some of the code to the latest version of BlogCFC.

I'm considering updating the graphics too.... to go along with the other changes going on.

Next week, I'll be back to self-employment.